TASE extends trading day to 5:30 pm from April

On Sunday, the trading day will end at 2:30 pm. Trading will begin 15-25 minutes later.

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) board of directors today approved extending the trading day to 5:30 pm on Monday-Thursday. On Sunday, the trading day will end at 2:30 pm. Trading will begin 15-25 minutes later. Trading in bonds and makams (short-term Treasury notes) will remain unchanged.

The new schedule will extend trading in shares and derivatives by 45 minutes a week, but shorten trading in bonds and makams by four hours a week.

The TASE said that the change would "bring trading hours in shares and derivatives in Tel Aviv closer to the prevailing hours in leading European exchanges and create a partial overlap with trading in New York."